Internet Stunned As Worker Finds Employer Placed Job Listing To Replace Her

In a viral post shared on Reddit’s 2 million-strong r/antiwork group on Sunday, which can be viewed here, user oldbuddyoldfriendpal explained how she discovered the job ad and suspected it was to replace her. The post, which was upvoted more than 51,800 times online, added the employee works for a small company with two other co-workers. User oldbuddyoldfriendpal continued: “I’m the only one with my job title and the only one needed....

January 12, 2023 · 2 min · 387 words · Candice Beckham

Internet Stunned By Viral Video Showing 2 Year Old Reading Brilliant

In a clip posted over the weekend that has since generated over 6 million views, the 2-year-old is reading a short sentence off of a flashcard. The child is seen sounding out the words as she goes along reading aloud “My bag is open.” The account @lethu_nanas appears to be named after the young girl, Lethu, but is run by her mother whose name is Ntombikayise Bhengu. According to Healthychildren....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 595 words · Christina Lindgren

Internet Stunned To See Grocery Item Locked Away At Tesco What Next

The video, posted to TikTok by @amberrosegarcia, has garnered over 900,000 views and thousands of comments from stunned viewers who couldn’t believe their eyes. However, some not-so-surprised viewers theorized the store locked away the grocery item to prevent shoplifting amid the cost-of-living crisis. Shoplifting and the U.K.’s Cost-of-Living Crisis The Tesco location featured in @amberrosegarcia’s video isn’t the first retailer to lock away an everyday grocery item. As reported by Insider, an Aldi store in the Midlands region of England also locked away packets of cheese....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 455 words · Gordon Soto

Internet Supports Redditor Who Purposefully Forgot Turkey On Thanksgiving

In the post, u/Throwawaygivings explained that she and her boyfriend had been dating for three years. She said a year before they got together, her boyfriend was with his high school sweetheart but they broke up. “His mom however was still heartbroken about it,” the post explained. “I was very understanding and thought she needed time to get to know me. The ex basically grew up with them and they saw her as a part of the family....

January 12, 2023 · 4 min · 687 words · Sandra Pepper

Internet Torn Over Man Choosing The Gym Over Girlfriend And Daughter

From 2019-2020, it was recorded that over 73 million Americans have some type of membership to a gym and only 6% don’t use it. In a post going viral on Reddit’s popular “AmITheA**hole” forum, u/Gymimportancethrow, wrote his submission that received 8,000 upvotes and 2,000 comments. The 32-year-old Reddit user explained that he’d been dating his girlfriend for about a year-and-a-half and she has a 4-year-old daughter from a past relationship....

January 12, 2023 · 4 min · 817 words · Elizabeth Gorrell

Interview What Would Big Bird Do

TRUGLIO: People want children to be ready to read in kindergarten, so that pressure is now being passed down to preschool and day-care centers. We’re putting a lot of pressure on [teachers] and introducing children to some things that may or may not be age-appropriate. Stress is not conducive to learning. If you’re put in a stressful environment, you’re not going to learn. The majority of kindergarten teachers want children to be able to function in a group setting....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 428 words · Mary Hui

Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction

The cause is not understood, but there are some known risk factors. With a pseudo-obstruction, the small or the large intestines are not moving food and waste material through as they do when the gastrointestinal tract is healthy. Signs and Symptoms Many of the signs and symptoms of pseudo-obstruction are similar to those that occur with other digestive diseases. It can be acute, coming on suddenly, or it can be chronic and recurrent....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 442 words · Donna Deyoung

Intruder Stabs Elderly Woman In Her Bed More Than 30 Times Police

The woman was attacked on Thursday morning in the town of Mansfield, which is midway between Cleveland and Columbus. Local media reports gave her age as 74. She survived the attack and is now in hospital. Mansfield Police are now appealing for information to identify her assailant. The woman described the man who stabbed her as a “light-skinned male” in his late teens or 20s, but also said she thought she had heard a second intruder in her home....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 465 words · Vivian Bambacigno

Invega Paliperidone Oral Uses Side Effects Dosages

Invega belongs to a larger group of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. These drugs were developed later than the “typical" antipsychotics first used to treat schizophrenia. Such atypical antipsychotics may have lower rates of side effects in nerves concerned with motor activity (extrapyramidal side effects). These include parkinsonism (a condition causing movement disorders in people with Parkinson’s disease), dystonia (a movement disorder in which contracted muscles cause repetitive or twisting motions), and akathisia (the inability to remain still)....

January 12, 2023 · 14 min · 2770 words · Edgar Langham

Inventor Of The Pixel And First Person To Scan A Digital Photo Dies At 91

Kirsch scanned a photograph of his infant son Walden in 1957, producing the first digital image decades before other early developments in digital photography began to take shape. He died Tuesday at his home in Portland, Oregon, according to The Oregonian. “My dad, he was a super curious guy, always asking questions,” Walden Kirsch told the paper. “He was an iconoclast. When people said you can’t go there or you can’t do that, he did....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 452 words · Carol Robinson

Investigators Keep Out

Cheney’s office said the VP’s only instruction to Goss was to “keep negotiating,” and Bushies insist they still hope to hammer out a new deal before Congress goes home this week. One obstacle: subpoena power. Last week’s proposed deal would allow any five members of the 10-member panel to subpoena documents, including internal White House intelligence briefs. But White House officials say this would allow congressional Democrats–who will control half the appointees–to “politicize” the commission....

January 12, 2023 · 1 min · 159 words · Danielle Williams

Investor Scrutiny Prompts Deutsche Bank To Drop Business In Russia

Deutsche Bank, which had estimated global assets of $1.3 trillion in 2020, according to Statista, had been one of the holdouts among the banking industry in regards to a Russian exodus. Other large financial conglomerates such as JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs had previously announced they would halt business in Russia. Despite the mass condemnation of Russia by the international banking community, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said in a letter to staff on Thursday that his company would not withdraw from the country, in a move also defended by the bank’s chief financial officer....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 536 words · Gladys Carter

Invicta Fc 11 Cyborg Destroys Tweet In 46 Seconds Inches Closer To Megafight With Rousey

There is a lot of interest in a possible Rousey-Cyborg megafight; Rousey is the best fighter in women’s MMA and Cyborg is No. 2. Cyborg took another step toward that showdown with a 46-second TKO of Charmaine Tweet to retain her Invicta FC featherweight championship. MORE: 37 astonishing UFC photos | UFC 184 odds and picks | Rousey, Zingano weigh in | Toughest foe yet for Rousey The bout started with Tweet coming right at Cyborg, but Justino landed an overhand right that dropped Tweet and seemed to break her nose....

January 12, 2023 · 2 min · 228 words · Richard Mendoza

Iowa Places Strength Coach Chris Doyle On Leave After Ex Players Allegations Doyle Issues Denial

The comments about Doyle that were posted Friday on Twitter (per Go Iowa Awesome) were part of a larger complaint from the ex-players, including some who moved on to the NFL, that the program’s culture stifles self-expression and makes black players feel unequal. Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz and athletic director Gary Barta announced Doyle’s leave. Players said Doyle used racist stereotypes to mock them and, in one case, forced a player to reach into a trash bin to retrieve a water bottle....

January 12, 2023 · 2 min · 363 words · Robert Braxton

Iowa Schools Barred From Hybrid Schedule Online Only Classes Unless They Make Up Days

However, last year schools in the state were able to have hybrid schedules and online classes. Meanwhile, Iowa’s COVID-19 case average is roughly 1,200 infections a week with around a quarter of cases detected in individuals age 17 and under as about 500,000 students began school in recent days. In addition, Iowa state law prevents schools from imposing mask mandates. Roughly 5 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are 17 and under in Iowa as of Wednesday....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 626 words · Sara Amsterdam

Iran Again Loses U.N. Voting Rights Over 18M In Unpaid Dues 7 Other Nations Also Owe

Along with Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Antigua and Barbuda, Republic of Congo, Guinea, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea are losing their voting rights over unpaid dues, according to the letter Guterres sent to General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid. A member nation can lose voting rights in accordance with U.N. rules regarding when unpaid dues equal or exceed the total that the country has contributed for the last two full years....

January 12, 2023 · 2 min · 350 words · Monica Holder

Iran And Saudi Arabia Express Potential For Talks Amid Middle East Tensions

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told Reuters on Wednesday that his Sunni Muslim kingdom was “open to the idea of holding a dialogue” with the Shiite Islamic Republic. Speaking at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the royal said “that dialogue would have to start with the acceptance by Iran that they have to change their behavior.” Specifically, he said, Tehran would have to agree that it “cannot further its regional agenda through violence....

January 12, 2023 · 4 min · 804 words · Nancy Duarte

Iran Backs China Calls To Investigate U.S. Creation And Spread Of Coronavirus

Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani lashed out on Twitter Wednesday against what he called the “typical way” in which some U.S. officials have emphasized China and its central Hubei province city of Wuhan as the likely place where the COVID-19 disease began and have blamed both Beijing and Tehran’s governments for failing to stop its spread. Shamkhani argued this was being done by U.S. officials done in order to “evade responsibility” themselves....

January 12, 2023 · 6 min · 1133 words · Thomas Blanchard

Iran Burns American Flags Hoists Joe Biden Effigy To Celebrate 1979 U.S. Embassy Takeover

Thousands of protesters chanted “death to America’’ and took to the streets setting American and Israeli flags on fire. Demonstrators raised a President Joe Biden effigy in the air, featuring Biden wearing a T-shirt with the Star of David on it, and red paint dripping from its mouth. Biden’s effigy was similar to Donald Trump’s used at the last rally. Every year on the day that the U.S. Embassy takeover triggered a 444-day hostage crisis, Iranians rally to express their disapproval of relations with the U....

January 12, 2023 · 3 min · 590 words · John Tuley

Iran Does Not Care Whether Donald Trump Wins The 2020 Election

As Democratic frontrunners vie over the primary position to challenge Trump in November, each candidate has criticized the president’s decision to leave a multilateral nuclear deal with Iran and impose strict sanctions against the Islamic Republic. However, should a Democrat win this year’s U.S. national election, an Iranian official said, the president-elect would be pressured by forces at home and abroad to adopt a hardline policy against Tehran. “Our general understanding is that if a Democrat is elected, there will be a tremendous effort, domestic and international, to influence the president’s approach to Iran,” the Iranian official told Newsweek....

January 12, 2023 · 6 min · 1136 words · Mary Thomas